How to Install Apache Tomcat for JSP and Servlets on Windows

For all my friends who have trouble installing tomcat , here is a simple and quick method to get your tomcat installed and you can then run your servlets and jsp scripts easily.

I am writing this brief tutorial for beginners and people with low IQ in computers , so the tutorial is straight and simple no alternatives or complexities introduced

Follow these Steps :-

1. Download Tomcat latest version zipped files from here , or visit this page and download from there . ( latest version 6 )

2. Now download this to your C:\  ( The one you have installed Windows to)

3. Unzip this and rename it to a shorter name ie. c:\tomcat6

4. Now I assume you already have the JRE installed, if not download it here . If you wish to compile your own servlets ten also download the JDK, otherwise JRE will do just fine

Well, I was getting bored of typing so i created a video tutorial instead, hope you guys don’t mind ,

Few things I forgot to mention in Video ..

1. To shutdown the Tomcat server just double click on shutdown.bat inside the bin folder and it will go down , you can create desktop shortcuts for startup.bat and shutdown.bat if you want to .

2. JAVA_HOME is must, without it tomcat wont run .

I will be adding tutorial on how to deploy a Servlet/JSP in Tomcat soon, preferably on demand !

Any More Queries, Ask in the comments I’ll reply quick

Tags: Java, JSP, Programming, Servlets, Tomcat

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